Bobby Knight at College Tennis Today has done a comparison between the men's Oracle/ITA rankings and their Universal Tennis Ratings. According to UTR, UCLA's Martin Redlicki, Oklahoma's Alex Ghilea and Illinois' Aleks Vukic are ranked much lower than they should be, while the ITA has Schnur, Koepfer, Cameron Norrie of TCU, and Felipe Soares of Texas Tech substantially higher in the rankings than their UTR ratings would warrant.

I'm not as proficient working with UTR as Bobby is, but if UTR ratings were used instead of ITA rankings, this would be the women's preseason Top 10:

Australian Open tournament director Craig Tiley was at the US Open last week, and the former head coach at Illinois was obviously delighted to see one of his recruits, Kevin Anderson, make his first slam quarterfinal. Tiley spoke about Anderson and building the Illinois program, and his current position in Australia in this interview at the Champaign/Urbana News-Gazette.
The post-US Open ITF junior rankings are out, and US boys hold four of the top 5 positions, including Taylor Fritz at 1, Michael Mmoh at 2, Tommy Paul at 3. Reilly Opelka is No. 5 and William Blumberg is No. 10. Sonya Kenin is now at No. 3, a career-high, after reaching the US Open final and Di Lorenzo is up to a career-high of 15.

Paul, who turned pro when he signed with Nike after his French Open boys title, now has signed with an agency: Team8, founded by Tony Godsick, Roger Federer's longtime agent when both were at IMG.

From today's Team8 release:

In tennis, TEAM8 manages all-time great Roger Federer, as well as 2009 US Open Champion, Juan Martin Del Potro and 2014 Wimbledon Semifinalist Grigor Dimitrov. "TEAM8 is going to continue to be very selective with whom we chose to partner. Tommy is not only a very talented and athletic tennis player, he is also an outstanding young man with a very bright future on the global tennis stage,” said Tony Godsick, President and CEO of TEAM8. “Tommy has all of the attributes that exemplify TEAM8 clients. We look forward to a great partnership.”

"I am excited to partner with TEAM8," said Paul. "Their team has an incredible reputation and track record partnering with professional athletes and I believe they can really help me with their individualized approach and global expertise.”

Colette; for the "newcomers" how does the ITA rank them? It cannot be by USTA or ITF rank as neither would produce these lists, and using UTR is also off, as the #10 player should be #2 by UTR standing.